“Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Someone could have an outstanding comprehension of a bodybuilding diet and a background in nutrition but not have the work ethic and… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless.… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. "The manuscript you… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Third, the Comprehension Hypothesis, on which Krashen’s concept of sheltering is based, holds that input is what matters in second language acquisition—not… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
There is a scientific explanation of healings by the power of Mind over matter which demonstrates that such healings are not miracles,… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I think that tri [to Ram Bahadur Bomjon] was the first time I'd even seen something that made me think, or really… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We've seen in terms of the reaction to some proposals in the Budget already how resistant that public opinion is to, first… — Brian Cowen Copy Share Image
“When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In… — Nicholas Ray Copy Share Image
Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image